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I'm so sick of Republicans. (Original Post) milestogo 10 hrs ago OP
I've hated them since 1960 young_at_heart 10 hrs ago #1
Nixon was a self-loathing, slimy piece of crap.... SergeStorms 7 hrs ago #13
I was just a child, but I remember my father saying that milestogo 6 hrs ago #17
I'm right there with you Grim Chieftain 9 hrs ago #2
There is no longer a Republican party -- it's the Rethuglican party now. OMGWTF 8 hrs ago #3
Jealousy, greed, hatred, racism and misogyny. pfitz59 8 hrs ago #4
I agree, but don't forget stupidity. Hard to believe, but there are actually some Trump voters who even we would call Fil1957 8 hrs ago #8
+1 peppertree 7 hrs ago #14
When I was just a kid I had a friend who lived with his grandmother. She had a boyfriend who was quite a character Cheezoholic 8 hrs ago #5
I am old enough to know they were clowns back in the 90s Cosmocat 8 hrs ago #6
I absolutely feel the same! BadgerMom 8 hrs ago #7
Pretty much Johonny 8 hrs ago #9
My favorite republican was (and still is) my late Uncle John. ihaveaquestion 8 hrs ago #10
Because they've been brainwashed by propaganda for 45 years. Initech 8 hrs ago #11
Cruelty and/or ignorance MaineBlueBear 8 hrs ago #12
Conservatism Artimus1 7 hrs ago #15
Yup. I'm 77 and my Dad was a "pull yourself up by the bootstraps' Republican... Joinfortmill 7 hrs ago #16
And literally all of the problems that Trump gripes about were the direct result of Murdoch republicans. Initech 4 hrs ago #18
This post made this song go through my mind... BigmanPigman 3 hrs ago #19
Same. Blue_playwright 2 hrs ago #20
Amen. hamsterjill 1 hr ago #21
The entire world is sick of Republicans. And sick FROM Republicans. thought crime 1 hr ago #22

young_at_heart

(4,031 posts)
1. I've hated them since 1960
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 01:45 PM
10 hrs ago

Nixon was my first hated Republican! The Vietnam years were excruciating (the boy who sat behind me in 7th grade was killed). Watergate! Going through those horrible, nightmare feelings now is just as bad, as it was then. The GOP doesn't seem to notice what we the people are experiencing....they are very self-centered!

SergeStorms

(20,437 posts)
13. Nixon was a self-loathing, slimy piece of crap....
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 04:06 PM
7 hrs ago

during the Eisenhower administration. I was just a kid, but sometimes kids are pretty good judges of a person's character, and Nixon wore his crookedness on his sleeve.
When he debated Kennedy it was sooooo apparent. How anyone in their right mind could vote for that worm is far beyond my imagination.

milestogo

(22,967 posts)
17. I was just a child, but I remember my father saying that
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 05:25 PM
6 hrs ago

Nixon was a CROOK. And that was way before he became president.

Grim Chieftain

(1,597 posts)
2. I'm right there with you
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 02:30 PM
9 hrs ago

As I've said for years, "Democrats are about 'we', Republicans are about 'me'."

I loathe them, now more than ever.

OMGWTF

(5,082 posts)
3. There is no longer a Republican party -- it's the Rethuglican party now.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 02:54 PM
8 hrs ago

They need to go the way of their predecessor the Whigs into the dustbin of history.

pfitz59

(12,614 posts)
4. Jealousy, greed, hatred, racism and misogyny.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 02:55 PM
8 hrs ago

Much stemming from their screwy religious cults. lots of angry incels who failed the sexual revolution and missed out on 'the summer of love'. generational hate coupled with weak, rigid minds.

Fil1957

(669 posts)
8. I agree, but don't forget stupidity. Hard to believe, but there are actually some Trump voters who even we would call
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 03:23 PM
8 hrs ago

"good people". But they voted for Trump 'cause they're just plain stupid.

Cheezoholic

(3,667 posts)
5. When I was just a kid I had a friend who lived with his grandmother. She had a boyfriend who was quite a character
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 02:57 PM
8 hrs ago

He wore an old Derby Hat, had a long pointy grey goatee, smoke surrounding him from a fat stogie he always had going (I mean those big big fat cigars) and the first real life brass flask I'd ever seen that he'd take swigs off of (and let us 8 year olds have a nip every now and then) and he had a low Jack Nicholson type voice. He was ALWAYS riding around or sitting in his big old low riding jet black 63 Thunderbird with the radio always tuned to the local jazz station and never went over 20mph, on purpose just to piss people off. I thought he was the coolest adult (besides my parents) I'd ever met. Every time he would leave when us kids were in the yard he'd get in the car, light up that stogie and holler at us. He would give each one of us a quarter and say remember this the rest of your life you little Yard Apes......

FUCK THOSE FUCKING REPUBLICAN COCKSUCKERS

I've been saying that for 55 years, never stopped, never will until I'm ash and dirt

Cosmocat

(15,399 posts)
6. I am old enough to know they were clowns back in the 90s
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 02:57 PM
8 hrs ago

And have spent the entirety of the 3+ decades since completely mystified how this country indulges their bullshit - and how they have incrementally sunk lower and lower over that time with the country somehow giving them more and more power.

Sorry, not us, but this is who "we" are ...

Johonny

(26,024 posts)
9. Pretty much
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 03:28 PM
8 hrs ago

The party died when they didn't even want clean water or air anymore. Shit, basically everyone wants.

ihaveaquestion

(4,601 posts)
10. My favorite republican was (and still is) my late Uncle John.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 03:31 PM
8 hrs ago

He was an Annapolis graduate and most of his career served on old-school diesel submarines, which he allowed us to tour once in the mid sixties... they are way smaller that you imagine, btw.

He and my mother got into knock-down drag out fights over Nixon at Christmas, but I still remember him very fondly. He never married or had children, but had a "girlfriend" who he cared for through all the years of her breast cancer treatments, improvements, relapse, until her death.

He was one of the good ones and would have hated, ABSOLUTED HATED, the orange shitstain.

I'm almost glad he's gone and not a witness to recent events and this timeline.

Initech

(108,489 posts)
11. Because they've been brainwashed by propaganda for 45 years.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 03:32 PM
8 hrs ago

Whether it was Jimmy Swaggart, Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Infowars, Charlie Kirk, Andrew Tate, the list goes on.

The worst part is that people voluntarily choose to consume this garbage. It's total brain rot.

MaineBlueBear

(455 posts)
12. Cruelty and/or ignorance
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 03:39 PM
8 hrs ago

I'm sure the ratio is different for each Republican voter, but that's the heart of it.

Artimus1

(1 post)
15. Conservatism
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 04:21 PM
7 hrs ago

Its a whole lot easier to guide people to an ideology than it is to convince them of it.

Joinfortmill

(20,940 posts)
16. Yup. I'm 77 and my Dad was a "pull yourself up by the bootstraps' Republican...
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 04:24 PM
7 hrs ago

That's just another way of saying, "I've got mine, so fuck you."
My dad was a a decent guy, but there was a cold core there somewhere. Last good Republican President was Eishenhower.

Initech

(108,489 posts)
18. And literally all of the problems that Trump gripes about were the direct result of Murdoch republicans.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 06:50 PM
4 hrs ago

And the current state of the GOP can be traced back to one man - Rupert Murdoch. He and his shitty propaganda outlet is the reason why the United States is in the mess that it's in. Fox News is a terrorist organization.

BigmanPigman

(55,026 posts)
19. This post made this song go through my mind...
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 08:14 PM
3 hrs ago

An oldie but a goodie and it still applies....

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I sing to this when I am in my kitchen...catchy tune!

Blue_playwright

(1,619 posts)
20. Same.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 09:25 PM
2 hrs ago

My dad told me that Republicans hate people and love corporations and money when I was little. The older I get the more I know he was right.

hamsterjill

(17,481 posts)
21. Amen.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 10:20 PM
1 hr ago

Never voted for one in my life and never will. With Republicans, it is ALWAYS about money. Full stop.

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